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January Adult Events at HPL

Check out these adult events happening in January! 1/2 | 10am-12pm | Classic Matinees: Tough Ladies Join us Tuesdays in January for classic matinees featuring the toughest ladies you’ll ever see on screen. Today we watch Detour (1945) starring Tom Neal and Ann Savage. 1/3 | 6-7:30pm | Google Account Tips, Tricks & Hidden Gems: Advanced Google […]

General Kids

Bookflix: A Fun Engaging Way to Learn

Are you looking for a way to get your child excited about reading and learning? Well look no further! Bookflix is an engaging literacy based read-aloud experience for young children who are learning how to read. Each theme has a fiction book paired with a nonfiction book to build real world knowledge and reading skills. […]

--Staff Picks General

Hogfather by Terry Pratchett

This classic of holiday fantasy by the one and only Sir Terry Pratchett, like most of the Discworld novels, turns the tropes and events of our world just a little sideways–often with the effect that we can see it all a bit more clearly. And he does it, of course, with his trademark wit and […]

Special Collections

Special Collections: New Year, New Hours!

We are pleased to announce that Special Collections will be expanding hours in 2024! We are also bringing back our evening hours for those who are not able to visit us during the day. Beginning January 2, 2024, Special Collections hours are as follows: Mondays: 10 AM to 3 PM Tuesdays:  10 AM to 3 PM Wednesdays:  10 […]

--Staff Picks General

Sketchtasy by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

Sketchtasy follows narrator Alexa and her friends through life in mid-1990s Boston. They party, go to clubs, dance, meet people, and try to experience the pleasures of life, while, as queer people, also facing homophobia and living through the height of the AIDS crisis. Sycamore’s writing is gripping: while reading, I felt as if I […]

--Booklists General

Booklist for the Christmas Holiday

The Christmas holiday is almost here! Check out this month’s booklist that’s in the spirit of Christmas with some Rom-Com genre thrown in! Visit our adult Booklist page to see other interesting booklists put together by our teem of librarians!

--Kids Events Kids

Kids Lit Book Club: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

Has your child wanted to start the Harry Potter series but hasn’t gotten around to it yet? Or, are they a mega-fan who has read the series multiple times? If the answer to either of those questions is yes, then they should join Megan in reading Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling […]

Special Collections

How to Use Special Collections

Have you ever looked at our Special Collections website – or perhaps noticed the Special Collections link on our homepage – and wondered what we’re all about? What makes Special Collections so special after all? The Special Collections & Archives Department is happy to answer your questions! Materials collected and preserved by our department are […]

--Staff Picks Teens

Check & Mate

Mallory Greenleaf walked away from chess for good at the age of 14 after it destroyed her family. Now, four years later, she finds herself begrudgingly agreeing to compete in a charity tournament with her best friend. She also happens to beat the current World Champion, Nolan Sawyer, at said tournament and shocks everyone. She’s […]